Virtual Culture NYC

09/24/2021

10/06/21 (Weds) 5:00-6:30 PM

Reading & Discussion Series on James Baldwin’s America: Both Light and Dark.

Drawing from reading excerpts of essays “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” “Many Thousand Gone,” “Carmen Jones” and “The Harlem Ghetto,” writer Sherese Francis will facilitate a discussion on what it means to be American inspired by Baldwin’s writings and his legacy in speaking truth to power.

09/24/2021

Queens Council on the Arts presents:

The High School to Art School program (HS2AS) is a FREE visual arts portfolio development program that provides qualified high school sophomores, juniors and seniors with the art skills training, mentorship, essay writing techniques, college application assistance and financial aid planning necessary to gain acceptance into competitive art colleges and achieve their dreams in the arts.

https://www.queenscouncilarts.org/hs2as

09/21/2021

09/21/2021

Sunday, October 3, 2021, 2–3:15 PM. -
The Morgan Library & Museum presents a Family Interactive Tour and Workshop.
The exhibition Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South, celebrates recent acquisitions at the Morgan from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting Black Southern artists and their communities

Family program participants will take a virtual tour of the exhibition, then take part in a live art workshop lead by Goose Grease House for the Arts. During the workshop, participants will copy the painting Courthouse by Henry Speller.

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Thornton Dial, Ladies Stand by the Tiger, 1991. Watercolor on paper. Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection and purchase on the Manley Family Fund. Photography by Janny Chiu, 2021. © 2021 Estate of Thornton Dial / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

09/15/2021

ArtsConnection Teen Programs invites you to our FREE BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT: A BRONX COMMUNITY CELEBRATION on Saturday, September 18 from 2-4 pm (see attached flyer for more info). It would be amazing to have some of the teens and families you work with in attendance. There will be free snacks, art-making activities, hip-hop dance sessions, and a live, spoken word performance. Learn about upcoming Bronx arts opportunities, visit the SpeakEasy Bookmobile and enter the raffle for back-to-school prizes!

09/15/2021

September 30-October 2nd Experimental Japanese sound artist ASUNA invites guests to gather in the round and move about the space as he nimbly manipulates this room of instruments, using the moiré pattern to create an immersive, unusual, and sublime sonic bath.

09/15/2021

Paid opportunity ! The GuggTeens Collaborative is a paid program to amplify local teen voices at the museum and beyond! From November to May, the annual cohort will learn about museum operations across a variety of departments and from a variety of perspectives. https://www.guggenheim.org/for-families.

08/04/2021

Virtual Tour and Interactive presented by . With the artist .sikander !

Sunday August 8th 2:00pm-3:15pm
Illustration by Hanna Barczyk https://www.themorgan.org/programs/family-interactive-tour-and-storytime-roots-and-wings-shahzia-sikander

02/02/2021

High school students, APPLY BY FEB 5! BAM’s FREE virtual after-school program that brings together social justice and the arts. Create movement, poetry, songs, and theater with young people all over the city with the support of BAM's dedicated and innovative teaching artists. Finish the program with an online sharing of your original, genre-bending new work!

Program meets weekly on Zoom on Thursdays from 4 to 6pm, March 4 to June 17. Apply by Feb 5 at the link in our bio!

Link in our bio!

10/17/2020

Find your voice in ‘s Soundtrack of Life Workshop. Working closely with professional artists, you’ll develop your own artistic voice through writing lyrics, poetry and spoken word - accompanied by music and percussion you create. Classes start November 3rd and are open to ages 13-22.
Register for FREE and find more classes at virtualculture.nyc (Link in Bio)

10/17/2020

Hip Hop, Contemporary, Ballet, Lyrical or Jazz - whatever your style is, Fate Foundation-Kids is offering FREE virtual dance classes every week 🗓
Register for FREE and find more classes at https://virtualculture.nyc/all-classes

10/17/2020

Make your voice heard - Girl Be Heard is a feminist theatre organization offering free, virtual youth empowerment workshops to girls, young women and gender non-conforming youth who wish the build on their artistic, activist and leadership skills! 🗓Audition deadline is October 30th! 🗓

Apply to the Sunday Workshop series and more free arts classes at virtualculture.nyc/all-classes